"Yes."

"Why?"

"He wants me to."

"Must you do as he wants?"

"Yes. But I want the child—different."

"Don't you want to be different?"

The woman quivered again but she answered steadily: "No."

Miss Smith sank into a chair and moistened her dry lips.

"Elspeth's is an awful place," she affirmed solemnly.

"Yes."